“With the draft for the sixth package of sanctions against Russia, which is ready in Brussels, for the first time the EU is attacking the main source of income for Putin. For Russia’s state budget, oil exports are more important than natural gas, which has been the subject of much debate in Germany. The previous packages were of great economic caliber and Russia is already suffering from them. But with this move, Europe is beginning to sever key ties with Russia. “Geopolitically, this leads more and more to the isolation of the country and so a new Iron Curtain emerges,” writes in a comment on its front page the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
In the case of oil, writes FAZ, there are alternative markets and customers in Asia and other parts of the world. But “above all, Western sanctions are increasing pressure on Putin. At best this will make him step down, maybe throw him out of power, but he can probably put pressure on himself elsewhere. “Ukraine’s victory in the war, as von der Leyen would like, is an ambitious goal, which can not be achieved by sanctions alone.”
Another open letter to Chancellor Soltz
While the war in Ukraine is raging with undiminished intensity and Germany is gradually increasing its indirect – or otherwise direct – involvement, an open letter from people of arts and letters to Chancellor Solts succeeds the other. Following a letter published in Emma magazine at the initiative of journalist, feminist and activist Alice Schwarzer calling on Soltz to reconsider the dangers of German rearmament and in particular a “global arms spiral with catastrophic consequences”, it is now time to newspaper Zeit.
The new letter, which is also co-authored by people of German arts and letters, such as Herta Müller, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature, is clearly in favor of sending heavy weapons to Ukraine. Among other things, the letter states: “It is in Germany’s interest to prevent the success of the Russian offensive war. Whoever attacks European peace, violates international law and commits enormous war crimes, must not leave the battlefield victorious (…) Ukraine’s capabilities as much as possible and weaken those of Russia. This presupposes a steady supply of weapons and ammunition in order to change the military balance in favor of Ukraine. “(‘S) If Putin’s armed revisionism succeeds in Ukraine, the risk of the next war on NATO soil increases.”
DW – Dimitra Kyranoudi
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